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In the midst of last week’s installments of the Anthony Weiner saga -- rehab, further revelations, resignation -- another minor media episode played itself out, a little less spectacularly, on the televised stage: Five days before the ceremony, Miss Crystal Harris bailed out on her planned wedding to Mr. Hugh Hefner. Everybody knows Hugh Hefner, of course: the founder of Playboy and professional bon vivant whose swinging bachelor lifestyle has been a staple of American pop culture since the Eisenhower era. But who is Crystal Harris? She turns out to be a 25-year-old ex-Playmate and aspiring singer -- whose plans...

Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner will not be marrying his Playmate bride-to-be Crystal Harris. "The wedding is off," Hefner, 85, tweeted Tuesday. "Crystal has had a change of heart."

The 85-year-old business mogul has been dating women in their 20s for decades. It's funny how the women he dates never age, but he still does. We've put together some lovely leading ladies close to his age. Sorry Hef!

As the network TV barons peruse through a menu of pilots for new fall shows, some just jump out of the pile. Some Tinseltown pundits have already pegged it as “likely” that NBC will pick up a show for fall called “The Playboy Club.” Just like it sounds, the show is based in Hugh Hefner’s original Playboy Club in Chicago in swinging 1963. If that doesn’t sound porn-friendly enough, the pilot’s producers at 20th Century Fox TV required all actors on the show to sign a nudity clause – virtually unheard of in broadcast television. "Nudity” in this contract is...

from amazon's product description: Taped on September 12, 1966Between these two antagonists one might have expected a heated debate, but what we get instead is a serious discussion of sexual ethics in the latter part of the 20th century.

LOS ANGELES -- The bacteria that cause Legionnaires' disease were found at the Playboy Mansion during an investigation into an illness that affected about 200 people who attended an event there last month, a health official said Tuesday.

Hugh Hefner, the twice-married founder of Playboy, is taking the plunge again. Hefner, 84, said on Saturday in a posting on Twitter that he and his girlfriend Crystal Harris, 24, got engaged on Friday

Hugh Hefner, America's most celebrated and legendary pornographer, has less and less reason to celebrate. His Playboy magazine empire is crumbling -- he may even be bought out by competitors -- and his prototypical leering pose with girls young enough to be his great-granddaughters is now just plain creepy. His 2009 Christmas card featured 83-year-old Hefner standing between two 20-year-old twins who are his newest live-in girlfriends. Each was wearing a pink tank top with "Hef" painted on it in white. Hefner's women are forever the plastic toys under his tree. Into this sad picture comes documentary filmmaker Brigitte Berman...

LOS ANGELES — Hugh Hefner leaned back on a red loveseat, the saggy one in the study of his infamous mansion here, and interlocked his fingers behind his head. A visitor had asked — more like shouted, since he has trouble hearing — a question about mortality. At 83, does he think about it? In a word, no. Mr. Hefner, the legendarily libidinous founder of Playboy, the prophet of hedonism, does not believe that his denouement is at hand. He doesn’t act like it, either. He still works full days on his magazine, flies to Europe and Las Vegas, pops...

After more than a decade of separation, Hugh Hefner is seeking an official return to his bachelor status. The Playboy founder filed for divorce on Friday from his wife and former Playmate, Kimberly. Hefner is asking a judge to order him to pay Kimberly Conrad Hefner $20,000 a month in spousal support. That would be half of the $40,000 a month that the Playboy founder has been paying her since they separated in 1998, the records state. He wants the monthly payments to end in two years, or after a trial on the couple's divorce is held, whichever comes...

President Eisenhower Meets the Aliens? William L. Moore, Gazette, Hollywood, California, March 29, 1989 original source | fair use notice Summary: The story about Eisenhower's February 1954 trip to Palm Springs for a winter holiday, and his subsequent late Saturday night disappearance, has fueled rumors that Eisenhower traveled to nearby Edwards Air Force Base to meet with aliens. One of the best recounting of this rumor was done by William Moore a prominent California researcher who traveled to the Eisenhower Library to do research and actually interviewed the wife of one of the key witnesses to the story. UFOS...EXPLORING THE...

The Adult Magazine Is Scaling Back in a Last-Ditch Effort to Keep Publishing Ever wanted to pick your own Playboy centerfold? Now might be your chance. It appears that the iconic magazine is being shopped around, with potential bidders being asked around $300 million for the publication. The market capitalization of the company's stock is hovering around $100 million. Several giant players in the private equity field have been approached, including Apollo Capital Partners and Providence Equity Partners, which both refused to pay such a high premium, unnamed sources told the New York Post. But a bidder might also...

Hugh Hefner and his wife, Kimberley Conrad Hefner, who have lived in adjacent mansions since their 1999 separation, are listing Ms. Hefner's Los Angeles home for $28 million. In Holmby Hills, the house stands next door to the Playboy mansion, Mr. Hefner's massive, Tudor-style party-friendly home since the 1970s. Ms. Hefner, 1989's Playmate of the Year, says she and Mr. Hefner bought the house about 10 years ago so that she could raise their two sons there, who are now college-age. There's a door in the wall between the two properties for easier access back and forth. "You know...

Christie Hefner, daughter of doddering, octagenerian Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, has a new job. CNN announced this morning that she has been “added to our roster of economic analysts.” Hefner breathlessly revealed her economic expertise by saying the “sense that I’m getting, in talking to CEOs, is that people are hoping for a late 2010 recovery.” “I’ve proposed a special program called ‘The Anchors of CNN,’” Hefner might have said. “In a cost-cutting move, we’ve chosen Larry King as our first centerfold because he already had a staple in his belly.” “I couldn’t be prouder,” said proud papa Hugh Hefner....

How could political analysis of the 2008 election be complete without the input of the bathrobe-wearing Hugh Hefner? For those who couldn't care less what Hefner thinks about politics, a video of Playmate Kendra answering a really controversial question is presented at the bottom of this story. But first, here is the Hef answering a few questions about Sarah Palin beginning with, "As an advocate of teen abstinence, is Sarah Palin a hypocrite because of her daughter's pregnancy? Is she fit to be VP?" I wouldn't call her a hypocrite. I think, uhh, she's not the one who got pregnant....

Tycoon Hugh Hefner has been advised to cut back on staff at his multi-million dollar glamour empire as it struggles to cope during the global economic turmoil. The 83-year-old has been told to lay off some of his staff at his Los Angeles and New York offices as soon as this month or go bankrupt. The company has recently seen shares fall from £6.20 to £1.55. An insider at the company told the Daily Star that bosses had been aware of the worsening situation for "a while". "Only the top brass has known for a while how bad things have...

Hugh Hefner, the 81-year-old Playboy magnate, is again rumored to be having a baby with his main squeeze, 27-year-old Holly Madison. Please, say it isn't so! Dlisted reports that Holly and the rest of the gang attended the Monte Carlo TV Festival last week...and not only wore figure concealing outfits...but also refused booze. Oh my!

Hugh Hefner is set to marry his favourite girlfriend Holly Madison. Playboy mogul Hugh - who shares his infamous mansion with Holly and two other girlfriends, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson - is now reportedly planning to make Holly his wife. The wedding - which will be 80-year-old Hugh's third - will be aired on reality TV show 'The Girls Next Door' - which depicts life at the Playboy Mansion. A source told the New York Post newspaper: "This is very secret, but the word is 'yes.' Hef has decided he will marry Holly, and he wants it for his...

The world's most famous men's magazine has begun offering "Playboy bodcasts" from its Web site for download and viewing on portable devices such as Apple's iPod. The free video clips available for download include Playboy big dog Hugh Hefner dispensing "wit and wisdom" and Playmates cracking jokes and offering love advice. A Playboy spokesperson said the free downloads are rated PG, but the company plans to offer "sexier" premium content in the future.

Talking of lasting libidos, how's wanting more kids by a Playboy of 80 from his 25-year-old Playmate sound to you? And if you think that such things happen only in movies, then think again, for that is exactly what the original `Playboy`, Hugh Hefner is planning with his current `Playmate`, Holly Madison. "Holly and I have talked about that," "I wouldn't reject it out of hand. I certainly think it's possible." The New York Daily News quoted Hefner, as telling the paper. And his four kids, two from his first marriage, and two from his second, will not be consulted,...